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Famous Last Words
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Some famous final words from some famous dying people:
| | "Thomas Jefferson...still survives..." - John Adams, US President, d. July 4, 1826 | | | "This is the last of earth! I am content." - John Quincy Adams, US President, d. February 21, 1848 | | | "Why not? It belongs to him." - Charlie Chaplin, actor - in reply to the priest at his deathbed who said, "May the Lord have mercy on your soul." | | | "Please don't leave me. Please don't leave me." - Chris Farley, actor/comedian | | | "Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well...let 'em wait." - Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary general, d. 1789 | | | "Am I dying or is this my birthday?" - Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964 | | | "Nothing, but death." - Jane Austen, writer, d. July 18, 1817 | | | Codeine . . . bourbon. - Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d. December 12, 1968 | | | How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden? - P. T. Barnum, entrepreneur, d. 1891 | | | I can't sleep. - James M. Barrie, author, d. 1937 | | | Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy. - Ethel Barrymore, actress, d. June 18, 1959 | | | Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. - John Barrymore, actor, d. May 29, 1942 | | | I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. - Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, d.1170 | | | "Now comes the mystery." - Henry Ward Beecher, evangelist, d. March 8, 1887 | | | Friends applaud, the comedy is finished. - Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1827 | | | I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. - Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January 14, 1957 | | | Josephine... - Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor, May 5, 1821 | | | "I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct." - Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d. 1702 | | | Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you. - Johannes Brahms, composer, d. April 3, 1897 | | | Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy. - Charlotte Bronte, writer, d. March 31, 1855 | | | Beautiful.- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, writer, d. June 28, 1861 | | | Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight. - Lord George Byron, writer, d. 1824 | | | Et tu, Brute? - Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor, d. 44 BC | | | I am still alive! - Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor, d.41 AD | | | Don't let poor Nelly (his mistress, Nell Gwynne) starve. - Charles II, King of England and Scotland, d. 1685 | | | Ay Jesus. - Charles V, King of France, d. 1380 | | | I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time. - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, writer, d. July 1, 1904 | | | "The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive." - Frederic Chopin, composer, d. October 16, 1849 | | | I'm bored with it all. - Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965 | | | This time it will be a long one. - Georges Clemenceau, French premier, d. 1929 | | | I have tried so hard to do the right. - Grover Cleveland, US President, d. 1908 | | | That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted. - Lou Costello, comedian, d. March 3, 1959 | | | Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow. - Noel Coward, writer, d. 1973 | | | Damn it... Don't you dare ask God to help me. - Joan Crawford, actress, d. May 10, 1977 | | | That was a great game of golf, fellers. - Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby, singer / actor, d. October 14, 1977 | | | I am not the least afraid to die. - Charles Darwin, d. April 19, 1882 | | | My God. What's happened? - Diana (Spencer), Princess of Wales, d. August 31, 1997 | | | I must go in, the fog is rising. - Emily Dickinson, poet, d. 1886 | | | Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain? - Jessica Dubroff, seven-year-old pilot, d. 1996 | | | Adieu, mes amis. Je vais la gloire. - Isadora Duncan, dancer, d. 1927 | | | Please know that I am quite aware of the hazards. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others. - Amelia Earhart, d. 1937 | | | It is very beautiful over there. - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, d. October 18, 1931 | | | No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end. - Edward VII, King of Britain, d. 1910 | | | All my possessions for a moment of time. - Elizabeth I, Queen of England, d. 1603 | | | I've never felt better. - Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor, d. December 12, 1939 | | | I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring. - Richard Feynman, physicist, d. 1988 | | | I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it. - Errol Flynn, actor, d. October 14, 1959 | | | A dying man can do nothing easy. - Benjamin Franklin, statesman, d. April 17, 1790 | | | Come my little one, and give me your hand. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, d. March 22, 1832 | | | I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man. - Ernesto "Che" Guevara, d. October 9, 1967 | | | Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy. - Edmund Gwenn, actor, d. September 6, 1959 | | | God will pardon me, that's his line of work. - Heinrich Heine, poet, d. February 15, 1856 | | | Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark. - O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), writer, d. June 4, 1910 | | | All is lost. Monks, monks, monks! - Henry VIII, King of England, d. 1547 | | | I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. - Thomas Hobbes, writer, d. 1679 | | | I see black light. - Victor Hugo, writer, d. May 22, 1885 | | | Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven. - Andrew Jackson, US President, d. 1845 | | | Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees. - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, d. 1863 | | | Is it the Fourth? - Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826 | | | Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. - Jesus Christ | | | "Does nobody understand?" - James Joyce, writer, d. 1941 | | | Why not? Yeah. - Timothy Leary, d. May 31, 1996 | | | Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death. - Franz Leher, composer, d. October 24, 1948 | | | A King should die standing. - Louis XVIII, King of France, d. 1824 | | | Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal? - Louis XIV, King of France, d. 1715 | | | I am a Queen, but I have not the power to move my arms. - Louise, Queen of Prussia, d. 1820 | | | Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers. - Walter De La Mare, writer, d. 1956 | | | Let's cool it brothers . . . - Malcolm X, Black leader, d. 1966 | | | Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. - Karl Marx, revolutionary, d. 1883 | | | I forgive everybody. I pray that everybody may also forgive me, and my blood which is about to be shed will bring peace to Mexico. Long live Mexico! Long Live Independence! - Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, (Archduke Maximilian of Austria), d. June 11, 1867 | | | Nothing matters. Nothing matters. - Louis B. Mayer, film producer, d. October 29, 1957 | | | It's all been very interesting. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer, d. 1762 | | | I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room. - Eugene O'Neill, writer, d. November 27, 1953 | | | Good-bye . . . why am I hemorrhaging? - Boris Pasternak, writer, d. 1959 | | | Get my swan costume ready. - Anna Pavlova, ballerina, d. 1931 | | | I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven. - Pietro Perugino, Italian painter, d. 1523 | | | Lord help my poor soul. - Edgar Allan Poe, writer, d. October 7, 1849 | | | I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you. - James K. Polk, US President, d. 1849 | | | Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. - Alexander Pope, writer, d. May 30, 1744 | | | I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor. - François Rabelais, writer, d. 1553 | | | I have a terrific headache. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US President, d. 1945 | | | Put out the light. - Theodore Roosevelt, US President, d. 1919 | | | They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... - General John Sedgwick, Union Commander, d. 1864 | | | Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die. - George Bernard Shaw, playwright, d. November 2, 1950 | | | I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . . - Dylan Thomas, poet, d. 1953 | | | Moose... Indian... - Henry David Thoreau, writer, d. May 6, 1862 | | | God bless... God damn. - James Thurber, humorist, d. 1961 | | | I feel here that this time they have succeeded. - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, d. 1940 | | | Don't worry chief, it will be alright. - Rudolph Valentino, actor, d. August 23, 1926 | | | Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god. - Vespasian, Roman Emperor, d. 79 AD | | | Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923 | | | I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have. - Leonardo da Vinci, artist, d. 1519 | | | "I die hard but am not afraid to go." - George Washington, US President, d. December 14, 1799 | | | Go away. I'm all right. - H. G. Wells, novelist, d. 1946 | | | Either that wallpaper goes, or I do. - Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900 | | | I am ready. - Woodrow Wilson, US President, d. 1924 | | | Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good! - Florenz Ziegfeld, showman, d. July 22, 1932 | | | "Love one another." - George Harrison, musician / Beatle | | | "Leave me alone, I'm fine." - Barry White, musician |
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